This chapter discusses the appearance of the nirvana image in relic deposits of the tenth to twelfth centuries which marks the final episode in the account of the motif's development in medieval ...
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This chapter discusses the appearance of the nirvana image in relic deposits of the tenth to twelfth centuries which marks the final episode in the account of the motif's development in medieval China. It examines the two important finds from the late tenth century in Dingzhou, Hebei. In addition to being a surface décor on some of the metal and stone containers in the deposit assemblage, the nirvana motif also figured prominently in the underground structures respectively at Jingzhi Monastery and Jingzhong Cloister in the form of painted murals. It discusses the viewership and the very act of seeing the nirvana image in the hidden space of relic deposits.Less

Impermanent Burials: Relic Deposits

Sonya S. Lee

Published in print: 2010-03-01

This chapter discusses the appearance of the nirvana image in relic deposits of the tenth to twelfth centuries which marks the final episode in the account of the motif's development in medieval China. It examines the two important finds from the late tenth century in Dingzhou, Hebei. In addition to being a surface décor on some of the metal and stone containers in the deposit assemblage, the nirvana motif also figured prominently in the underground structures respectively at Jingzhi Monastery and Jingzhong Cloister in the form of painted murals. It discusses the viewership and the very act of seeing the nirvana image in the hidden space of relic deposits.

This chapter explores family strategies and structures in response to socioeconomic and political changes over two generations in a peripheral region of rural North China. The data are household ...
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This chapter explores family strategies and structures in response to socioeconomic and political changes over two generations in a peripheral region of rural North China. The data are household surveys conducted in Wugong village, Hebei, in 1978, at the end of the era of mobilizational collectivism; in 1984, two years after the reform agenda began to transform the village collective structure; and in 1987, when the household-contract system had taken root. The surveys are supplemented by interviews conducted in the course of more than a decade of fieldwork in this and other villages in Raoyang county and throughout central Hebei. The focus is on familial responses to macro political and economic change over the last half century, notably to the antimarket collectivism and the hukou population-control system implemented by a powerful party-state from the 1950s forward, and the contractual and market-oriented reforms and birth-control measures of the 1980s.Less

Family Strategies and Structures in Rural North China

Deborah DavisStevan Harrell

Published in print: 1993-10-02

This chapter explores family strategies and structures in response to socioeconomic and political changes over two generations in a peripheral region of rural North China. The data are household surveys conducted in Wugong village, Hebei, in 1978, at the end of the era of mobilizational collectivism; in 1984, two years after the reform agenda began to transform the village collective structure; and in 1987, when the household-contract system had taken root. The surveys are supplemented by interviews conducted in the course of more than a decade of fieldwork in this and other villages in Raoyang county and throughout central Hebei. The focus is on familial responses to macro political and economic change over the last half century, notably to the antimarket collectivism and the hukou population-control system implemented by a powerful party-state from the 1950s forward, and the contractual and market-oriented reforms and birth-control measures of the 1980s.